III. All goods, wares, and merchandize, which can or may be legally exported from the ports of either of the two countries, shail, on their export, pay the same duties of exportation, whether the exportation of such goods, wares, and merchandize, be made in British or in French vessels provided the said vessels proceed, respectively, direct from the ports of the one country, to those of the other. And all the said goods, wares, and merchandize. so exported in British or French vessels, shall be reciprocally entitled to the same bounties, drawbacks, and other allowances of the same nature, which are granted by the regulations of each country, respectively

IV. It is mutually agreed between the High Contracting Parties, that in the intercourse of navigation between their two countries, the vessels of any third power shall in no case, obtain more favourable conditions than those stipulated in the present Convention, in favour of British and French vessels.

V The fishing-boats of either of the two countries, which may be forced by stress of weather to seek shelter in the ports, or on the coasts of the other country, shall not be subject to any duties or port charges, of any description whatsoever; provided the said boats; when so driven in by stress of weather, shall not discharge or receive on board any cargo, or portion of cargo, in the ports, or on the parts of the coasts where they shall have sought shelter.

VI. It is agreed that the provisions of the present Convention between the High Contracting Parties, shall be reciprocally extended and in force, in all the possessions subject to their respective dominion in Europe.

VII. The present Convention shall be in force for the term of 10 years from the 5th of April of the present year; and further, until the end of 12 months after either of the High Contracting Parties shall have given notice to the other of its intention to terminate its operation; each of the High Contracting Parties reserving to itself the right of giving such notice to the other at the end of the said term of 10 years: and it is agreed between them, that, at the end of the 12 month's extension agreed to on both sides, this Convention, and all the stipulations thereof, shall altogether cease and determine.

VIII. The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in London, within the space of one month, or sooner if possible.

In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms.

Done at London, the 26th day of January, in the year of our Lord 1826. [L. S] GEORGE CANNING. [L. S.] LE PRINCE DE POLIGNAC.

[L. S.] WILLIAM HUSKISSON.

ADDITIONAL ARTICLE.

ART. I. From and after the 1st of October of the present year. French vessels shall be allowed to sail from any port wha ever of the countries, under the dominion of His Most Christian Majesty, to all the colonies of the United Kingdom (except those possessed by the East India Company) and to import into the said colonies all kinds of merchandise, (being productions the growth or manufacture of France, or of any country under the dominion of France) with the exception of such as are prohibited to be imported into the said colonies, or are permitted to be imported only from countries under the British dominion: and the said French vessels, as well as the merchandize imported in the same, shall not be subject, in the colonies of the United Kingdom, to other or higher duties than those to wh ch British vessels may be subject, on importing the same merchandize from any foreign country, or which are imposed upon the merchandize itself.

The same facilities shall be granted, reciprocally, in the colonies of France, with regard to the importation, in British vessels, of all kinds of merchandize, (being productions the growth and manufacture of the United Kingdom, or of any country under the British dominion) with the exception of such as are prohibited to be imported into the said colonies, or are permitted to be imported only from countries under the dominion of France. And whereas all goods, the produce of any foreign country may now be imported into the colonies of the United Kingdom, in the ships of that country, with the exception of a limited list of specified articles, which can only be imported into the said colonies in British ships, His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom reserves to himself the power of adding to the said list of excepted articles any other, the produce of the French dominions, the addition whereof may appear to His Majesty to be necessary for placing the commerce and navigation to be permitted to the subject of each of the High Contracting Parties with the colonies of the other, upon a footing of fair reciprocity.

II. From and after the same period, French vessels shall be allowed to export from all the colonies of the United Kingdom, (except those possessed by the East India Company) all kinds of merchandize, which are not prohibited to be exported from such colonies in vessels other than those of Great Britain; and the said vessels, as well as the merchandize exported in the same, shall not be subject to other or higher duties than those to which British vessels may be subject. on exporting the said merchandize, or which are imposed upon the merchandize itself; and they shall be entitled to the same bounties, drawbacks, and other allowances of the same nature, to which British vessels would be entitled, on such exportation.

The same facilities and privileges shall be granted, reciprocally, in all the colonies of France, for the exportation, in British vessels, of all kinds

of merchandize, which are not prohibited to be exported from such colonies. in vessels other than those of France.

These two Additional Articles shall have the same force and validity as if they were inserted word for word, in the Convention signed this day. They shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at the same time.

In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms.

Dae at London, the 26th day of January, in the year of our Lord 1826. [L. S. GEORGE CANNING. [L. S.] LE PRINCE DE POLIGNAC.

[L. S.] WILLIAM HUSKISSON.

No. 11. Extract from the Treaty of Navigation and Commerce, between Queen Anne, of Great Britain, and Lewis the XIV, King of France, concluded at Utretch, the 11th of April, 1713. [Omitted at page 144.]

XVII. It shall be lawful for all and singular the subjects of the Queen of Great Britain and of the most Christian King, to sail with their ships with all manner of liberty and security, no distinction being made who are the proprietors of the merchandizes laden thereon, from any port, to the places of those who are now, or shall be hereafter, at enmity with the Queen of Great Britian, or the most Christian King; it shall likewise be lawful for the subjects and inhabitants aforesaid to sail with the ships and merchandizes aforementioned, and to trade with the same liberty and security from the places, ports, and havens of those who are enemies of both, or of either party, without any opposition or disturbance whatsoever, not only directly from the places of the enemy aforementioned to neutral places, but als., from one place belonging to an enemy to another place belonging to an enemy, whether they be under the jurisdiction of the same Prince, or under several. And as it is now stipulated concerning ships and goods, that free ships shall also give a freedom to goods, and that every thing shall be deemed to be free and exempt which shall be found on board the ships belonging to the subjects of either of the confederates, although the whole lading, or any part thereof, should appertain to the enemies of either of their Majesties, contraband goods being always excepted, on the discovery whereof, matters shall be managed according to the sense of the subsequent articles; it is also agreed, in like manner, that the same liberty be extended to persons who are on board a free ship, with this effect, that although they be enemies to both, or to either party, they are not to be taken out of that free ship, unless they are soldiers, and in actual service of the enemies.

XVIII. This liberty of navigation and commerce shall extend to all kinds of merchandizes, excepting those only which follow in the next article, and which are signified by the name of Contraband:

XIX Under this name of contraband, or prohibited goods, shall be comprehended arms, great guns, bombs, with their fusees and other things belonging to them; fire-balls, gunpowder, match, cannon bill, pikes swords, lances, spears, halberds, mortars, petards, granadoes, salt petre, musketball, helmets, head-pieces, breast-plates, coats of mail, and the like kinds of arms proper for arming soldiers, musket-rests, belts, horses with their furniture, and all other warlike instruments whatever.

XX. These merchandizes which follow shall not be reckoned among prohibited goods; that is to say, all sorts of cloths, and all other manufactures woven of any wool, flax. silk, cotton, or any other materials whatever; all kinds of cloaths and wearing-apparel, together with the species whereof they are used to be made; gold and silver, as well coined as uncoined, tin, iron, lead, copper, brass, coals; as also wheat and barley, and any other kind of corn and pulse; tobacco, and likewise all manner of spices, salted and smoked flesh, salted fish, cheese and butter, beer, oils, wines, sugars, and all sorts of salt, and, in general. all provisions which serve for the nourishment of mankind and sustenance of life. Furthermore, all kinds of cotton, hemp, flax, tar, pitch, ropes, cables, sails, sail-cloth, anchors, and any parts of anchors; also shipmasts, planks, boards, and beams, of what trees soever; and all other things proper either for building or repairing ships; and all other goods whatever, which have not been worked into the form of any instrument or thing prepared for war, by land or by sea, shall not be reputed contraband, much less such as have been already wrought and made up for any other use; all which shall wholly be reckoned among free goods, as likewise all other merchandizes and things which are not comprehended and particularly mentioned in the preceding article, so that they may be transported and carried, in the freest manner, by the subjects of both confederates, even to places belonging to an enemy, such towns or places being only excepted as are at that time besieged, blocked up round about, or invested.

No. 12. British Order in Council, granting to French Vessels certain Privileges of Trading with the British Possessions in the West Indies and America.

At the Court at Carlton-House, the 1st of June, 1826. Present, the King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

Whereas by a certain Act of Parliament passed in the 6th year of the reign of His present Majesty, (Cap. 114) intituled "An Act to regulate the trade of the British possessions abroad," after reciting that "By the law of navigation, foreign ships are permitted to import into any of the British possessions abroad, from the countries, to which they belong, goods, the produce of those countries, and to export goods from such possessions, to be carried to any foreign country whatever; and that it is expedient that such permission should be subject to certain conditions ;" it is enacted

"That the privileges thereby granted to foreign ships shall be limited to the ships of those countries which, having colonial possessions, shall grant the like privileges of trading with those possessions to British ships; unless His Majesty, by His Order in Council, shall, in any case deem it expedient to grant the whole, or any of such privileges to the ships of any foreign country, although the conditions aforesaid shall not, in all respects, be fulfilled by such foreign country." And whereas the conditions mentioned and referred to in and by the said Act of Parliament, have not in all respects been fulfilled by the Government of France; but nevertheless His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, doth deem it expedient to grant certain of the privileges aforesaid to the ships of France; His Majesty doth therefore, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authority in him vested by the said Act of Parliament, declare and grant, that it shall and may be lawful for French ships to import into any of the British possessions in the West Indies and America, from the dominions of His Most Christian Majesty, such goods being the produce of those dominions as are mentioned and enumerated in the table subjoined to this present Order, and to export goods from such British possessions, to be carried to any foreign country whatever:

And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, and the Right Honourable Earl Bathurst, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain. JAS. BULLER.

Table referred to in the preceding Order :

Wheat, flour, biscuit, bread, meal, peas, beans, rye, callavances, oats, barley, indian corn, rice, shingles, red oak staves or headings, white oak staves or headings, wood, lumber, woodhoops, live stock, hay and straw, coin and bullion, diamonds, salt, fruit and vegetables fresh, cotton wool.

All articles subject, on importation, to a duty ad valorem; and on which articles the amount of such duty shall not, at the ume of importation, exceed £7. 108. for every £100 of the value

of the same.

No. 13. An Act to amend an act of the sixth year of his late Majesty, to regulate the Trade of the British possessions abroad (22d April, 1831.) Anno Primo Gulielmi IV. Regis. Cap. XXIV.

Whereas, by an act passed in the sixth year of His late Majesty's reign, intituled, An Act to regulate the Trade of the British Possessions abroad, and by subsequent acts made and passed to alter and amend the said act, certain duties of customs are imposed on articles of foreign production when imported or brought into the British Possessions in America: And whereas it is expedient to repeal some of the said duties, and to alter or vary others of them: Be it therefore enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in the present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the fifteenth day of April,